Alan Bradley Quotes - Page 2

• I always knew that I wanted to work on my own material - something that would be more long-lasting than short-lived electronic transmissions.

  Alan Bradley

  Long, Would Be, Lasting

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• TV and film taught me to think cinematically. Teaching others to edit, for example, provides a great deal of insight into the millions of ways in which given elements can be put together to tell a story.

  Alan Bradley

  Teaching, Thinking, Together

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• I grew up in a very British family who had been transplanted to Canada, and my grandmother's house was filled with English books. I was a very early reader, so I was really brought up being surrounded with piles of British books and British newspapers, British magazines. I developed a really great love of England.

  Alan Bradley

  Book, Grandmother, Great Love

  "Book Talk: Alan Bradley on young sleuths and TV series". Interview with Noreen O'Donnell, www.reuters.com. March 8, 2013.

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• Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben, I dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about. I always woke up before the plane landed.

  Alan Bradley

  Growing Up, Tired, Talking

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• Except I'm aware that as a writer you can't get away with as much writing for children as you can with adults. Children have much more finely tuned senses of justice, morals, and ethics. They are much more Platonic: children are symmetrical, before we begin to fragment them with our own nonsensical ideas and squelch their natural joy in knowledge.

  Alan Bradley

  Children, Writing, Ideas

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